Marble

Marble 1.3 has been released with lots of new gems: Marble — the virtual globe and world atlas — now integrates with KDE Plasma's KRunner.
By allowing for coordinate and bookmark searches, Marble can be opened directly from the Plasma search bar.

Thousands of people use Marble on the Nokia N900 to find their way and explore the world. Become their voice!

Record your voice speaking a handful of turn instructions like "bear left!" and participate in the Voice of Marble contest. With a bit of luck, your voice will be chosen as the default speaker for voice guidance in Marble's next version (1.2, to be released in July 2011).

We're looking for an English speaker (male or female) whose voice will be shipped with the Marble packages. And we're also looking for alternative speakers for each language supported by KDE - at least one each, and that's a lot!

Please participate in the contest and spread the word among your friends. The five best contributions will get a cool Marble T-shirt as a little present.

Interested? Please head over to the Voice of Marble wiki page which contains all the details you need to participate. The deadline for submissions is July 15th 2011.

The Marble Team has just released Marble 1.1. This release is special: With many new features being developed during Google Code-in (GCI) the Marble Team decided to make a new release in between the usual KDE application ones. The new version provides several new features and improvements:

Map Creation Wizard and Map Sharing

OpenDesktop and Earthquakes Online Service

Extended Plugin Configuration

Map Editing

and Voice Navigation

The Marble library released alongside is binary compatible with the one shipped with KDE 4.6 (Marble 1.0).

Marble 1.0.0 was released on January 26th, 2011. It is part of the KDE 4.6 Software Compilation.

The highlights of the new release are certainly the sophisticated Online and Offline Routing support,
Bookmark support and major UI and performance improvements for the mobile Maemo/Nokia N900 version.

In the good tradition of recent years, we have collected those changes directly visible to the user.
Please enjoy looking over the new and noteworthy in our Visual ChangeLog.

Marble 0.10 was released on August 10th, 2010. It is part of the KDE 4.5 Software Compilation.

The new release introduces Online Routing via OpenRoutingService
(restricted to Europe, the next version will have global coverage). This major
update is also the first version that introduces adjustments for the Mobile
platform (Maemo/MeeGo). A lot of work has also gone into Bulk Download of Map Data,
Multilayer support and initial support for WMS.

In the good tradition of recent years, we have collected those changes directly visible to the user. Please enjoy looking over the new and noteworthy in our Visual ChangeLog.

Playing with open map data can be a fun pastime.
Creating and editing open data can be not only fun, but also a
boost for free data to go along with free software. [...]
Marble is one of the best-known map-viewers for Linux.